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13/04/2010

Natixis réorganise ses activités de marché et supprime un poste de responsable

Selon la Tribune, Natixis réorganise ses activités de marché. Le poste de responsable des marchés, occupé par Marc Breillout, va être supprimé. Le nouveau patron de la banque d’investissement De Doan Tran chapeautera directement les deux responsables des marchés actions, Jean-Claude Pétard, et des taux, Stéphane About, précise le quotidien.
13/04/2010

Orco Property : le torchon brûle entre la direction et les actionnaires contestataires

Dans un communiqué, Millenius Investments récemment entré au capital de la foncière Orco Property a annoncé qu’il entendait contester les modalités légales de l’augmentation de capital sans avis préalable des actionnaires que compte réaliser la foncière, rapporte la Tribune. Millenius tente de désamorçer la dernière trouvaille du patron d’Orco, Jean-François Ott, pour diluer les actionnaires contestataires
13/04/2010

Les grandes banques d’investissement concoctent des produits « anti réglementation »

La Tribune qui cite le Financial Times rapporte que pour contourner la réglementation, les grandes banques d’investissement mondiales étudient la création de nouveaux produits financiers. Elle se concentrent sur les crédits d’impôts. Sachant qu’elles ne seront, a priori, plus autorisées à les comptabiliser dans le calcul de leurs fonds propres, elles envisageraient de les vendre à des fonds d’investissement ou hedge funds à des prix décotés de 20/30 %. Le cash récupéré permettrait ainsi de renforcer leurs fonds propres.
13/04/2010
Fonds

Perspectives stables pour les fonds monétaires

Malgré un environnement qui reste difficile et des perspectives à plus long terme incertaines, les perspectives de notation pour les fonds monétaires restent stables tant aux Etats-Unis qu’ailleurs dans le monde, indique Moody’s dans son rapport annuel sur les fonds monétaires qui relève que la liquidité et la qualité du crédit se sont améliorées l’an dernier.Aux Etats-Unis, les modifications réglementaires susceptibles d’intervenir d’ici à la fin de l’année pourraient modifier en profondeur le secteur du marché des fonds monétaires.
Fonds
13/04/2010
Fonds

Les hedge funds lorgnent sur les ETF

BlackRock pense que de plus en plus de gestionnaires de hedge funds vont créer des ETF en utilisant leurs propres fonds comme sous-jacents, rapporte le Financial Times Fund Management. Mais Deborah Fuhr, global head of ETF research, prévient que ces nouveaux produits seraient plus difficiles à comprendre pour les investisseurs.
Fonds
13/04/2010

La Deutsche Bank crée une coentreprise en Arabie saoudite

Lundi, la Deutsche Bank a annoncé la création de Deutsche Gulf Finance, une coentreprise dans laquelle sa succursale de Riyad détient 40 % et dont les 60 % restants sont contrôlés par un groupe d’investisseurs saoudiens animé par Fahad Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Rajhi. Cette société a pour objet un financement de logements conforme à la charia. Initialement, Deutsche Gulf Finance aura un capital de 110 millions de dollars et se limitera au financement immobilier en Arabie saoudite. Ensuite, l’activité sera étendue à Bahreïn, au Qatar et au Koweit.
13/04/2010

Cerberus acquiert DynCorp

Le conseil d’administration de DynCorp International a accepté lundi une offre d’acquisition émanant de fonds du capital-investisseur Cerberus Capital Management et portant sur environ 1,5 milliard de dollars, dette comprise. Les actionnaires percevront 17,55 dollars par action, ce qui représente une prime d’environ 49 % sur le cours de clôture de 11,75 dollars le 9 avril et d'à peu près 50 % sur la moyenne du cours de clôture sur les 90 dernières séances. L’acquisition du groupe de défense sera autofinancé en partie par Cerberus qui contractera en complément des prêts de Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets, Barclays Bank et Deutsche Bank Securities.La transaction devrait être bouclée au troisième ou au quatrième trimestre, mais DynCorp conserve la faculté de solliciter d’autres offres de tierces parties pendant 28 jours. Le dédit serait de 30 millions de dollars.
13/04/2010

Nominations chez CalPERS

CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) a annoncé le 12 avril plusieurs nominations, notamment celle de Larry Jensen au poste de Assistant Executive Officer des services administratifs du fonds de pension californien. Depuis 15 ans chez CalPERS, Larry Jensen était chief auditor depuis 2002.Kim Malm est nommée Interim Assistant Executive Officer pour la division Health Benefits, Alan Milligan devient actuaire en chef de CalPERS, tandis que Danny Brown prend la direction du bureau des affaires gouvernementales.
13/04/2010

Henderson confirme s'intéresser à RidgeWorth

Lundi 12 avril, Henderson Group, prenant en compte les rumeurs qui circulent dans les médias, a confirmé être en pourparlers au sujet de l’acquisition potentielle de certaines des activités de l’américain RidgeWorth Capital Management Inc (63,1 milliards de dollars d’encours), filiale de SunTrust Banks Inc. Le gestionnaire britannique souligne toutefois que les négociations sont toujours en cours et qu’il n’y a aucune certitude qu’elles aboutiront.
13/04/2010
Fonds

Van Eck lance un ETF de petites capitalisations latino-américaines

Jeudi soir, Van Eck Global a annoncé le lancement du Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index ETF (acronyme LATM sur NYSE Arca), qui se veut le premier ETF ouvert coté aux Etats-Unis permettant aux souscripteurs d’investir dans les petites capitalisations latino-américaines qui font partie du Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index. Ce dernier comporte actuellement 81 valeurs de sociétés affichant une capitalisation boursière d’au moins 150 millions de dollars et un volume de transactions journalier minimum d’un million de dollars sur trois mois. Actuellement, les trois secteurs les plus importants sont les matériaux (26 %), les biens de consommation discrétionnaires (23 %) et les industrielles (14 %).Le taux de frais ressort à 0,63 % en net.Le LATM est le 25ème ETF de la gamme Market Vectors de Van Eck, une gamme qui pèse environ 13,5 milliards de dollars d’encours.
Fonds
13/04/2010
Fonds

Les ETF de Schwab franchissent la barre du milliard de dollars

Charles Schwab Corp a indiqué que l’encours de ses huit ETF a désormais franchi la barre du milliard de dollars, alors que les actifs sous gestion au 3 février se trouvaient encore à 570 millions de dollars, rapporte The Wall Street. Les quatre premiers produits ont été lancés voici tout juste cinq mois, les quatre autres ont suivi en décembre et janvier.
Fonds
13/04/2010

Morningstar UK se renforce outre-Manche

Morningstar UK, la filiale britannique de Morningstar, a annoncé le 12 avril l’acquisition du fournisseur britannique de recherche indépendante, de notation et de conseil sur les fonds, OBSR (Old Broad Street Research), pour un montant de 11,95 millions de livres.L'équipe du fournisseur britannique (une trentaine de personnes), renommé «OBSR, a Morningstar company», analyse et recommande quelque 500 fonds domiciliés ou non au Royaume-Uni, ainsi que de nombreux autres produits comme les produits de retraite.
13/04/2010
Fonds

Skandia commercialise son fonds European Best Ideas au Royaume-Uni

Lundi, Skandia a annoncé qu’il va désormais distribuer son Skandia European Best Ideas Fund (240 millions d’euros) sur le marché britannique au travers de sa plate-forme Skandia Investment Solutions. Ce produit de droit irlandais géré par Skandia Investment Group (SIG) est confié à dix gérants stars externes qui investissent chacun dans dix lignes correspondant à leurs «meilleures idées» (lire notre article du 31 mars). Le lead portfolio manager est Lee Freeman-Shor et la performance du fonds a été de 5,41 points supérieure sur deux ans à l’indice MSCI Europe.
Fonds
13/04/2010

First State Investments recruits in Asia

First State Investments has added to its personnel in Asia with the goal of developing its presence in the institutional investor market, which currently represents about 40% of its activities, Asian Investor reports. Alexis Ng, who previously worked for First State in Singapore, becomes managing director for South_East Asia, succeeding Lindsay Mann, who left the firm last year. When he has begun his work in this position, Ng will be succeeded in his former position by Edmund Teo, who was previously director of retail distribution, before joining Russell Investments on 1 April. Carol Lin last week began work in her new position in Hong Kong, as director of sales for Taiwan, a newly-created position which marks the first entry of First State into sales in this market. Sabrina Leung, previously of BlackRock in Hong Kong, joins the firm on 13 April in the newly-created position of regional director of sales and communication, which will include countries of the region other than Hong Kong and Singapore. First State has also created a position for a senior product manager for Asia, which will be occupied by Eco Tang, who previously worked for the firm. First State Investments, which is seeking to increase its presence on the markets in which it is already present (Hong Kong and Singapore) and to invest in markets in which its presence is limited (China, South Korea, and Taiwan), is also planning other recruitments in the next few months.
13/04/2010

Carlyle raises USD2.5bn in Asia

The Carlyle Group has raised USD2.6bn for its third Asian buy-out fund, says the Financial Times. Although less than the USD4bn targeted when the firm started raising the fund in 2008, it remains the biggest Asia-focused private equity fund to be completed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
13/04/2010

Retail banking price war sucks assets away from funds

In first quarter, the most conservative Spanish funds (money market and short-term bond funds) saw net redemptions of EUR5.5bn, according to figures from Inverco. Expansión comments that this exodus of investors coincides with promotional campaigns launched in March by Santander, Sabadell and Popular, who are offering savings accounts with 3.75%-4% interest rates. In March along, net outflows from funds totalled EUR2bn. According to the Bank of Spain, banks took in EUR7bn in deposits in January and February.
13/04/2010

Amundi ETF registers 46 ETF funds in the Netherlands

Amundi ETF announced on Monday, 12 April that it has registered 46 ETFs in the Netherlands. In addition to access to products of the Amundi ETF range through the three largest European stock markets – NYSE Euronext Paris, Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana – institutional investors in the Netherlands will now have access to the funds through local registrations. The 46 ETFs which were registered include: -16 Countries & Regions equities ETFs, which allow investors exposure to the major geographical sectors and emerging markets -13 Sectoral ETFs, offering exposure to the major global and European sectors -7 Equities ETFs -1 Money Market ETF, offering transparent and effective investment of liquidity for the short and mid-term. -9 Bond ETFs offering Euro zone government bonds with maturities ranging from 3 months to 15 years, with coverage against inflationary risks, or providing investment in corporates.
13/04/2010

Stable outlooks for money market funds

Despite an environment which remains difficult and more uncertain long-term outlooks, outlooks for ratings of money market funds remain stable in the United States and elsewhere in the world, Moody’s says in its annual report on money market funds, which finds that liquidity and the quality of credit improved last year. In the United States, regulatory changes likely to come by the end of the year may bring deep changes to the money market fund sector.
13/04/2010

Stoxx launches a new series of indices

The index provider Stoxx on 12 April announced the launch of the Stoxx Europe 600 Daily Short Index, along with 19 sectoral indices which will replicate a daily douhble short investment strategy.
13/04/2010

A new analysis tool for UCITS III funds

Citywire, which coined the term “Newcits” to describe UCITS III-compliant hedge fund strategies, has created a database of these funds. The database, which will be updated monthly, includes ratings of 276 funds using 13 strategies, of which the largest category is long/short, with 70 funds, followed by credit strategies (44), multi-strategy (36) and market neutral (25). Assets under management in these funds total about USD49bn. Three quarters of these products have a one-year track record, while 40% have a three-year track record.
13/04/2010

US investors see the light of UCITS

US investors are finally starting to succumb to the charms of Ucits, says the Financial Times Fund Management. A number of US investors are now said to be looking at the new generation of Ucits III-compliant hedge fund strategies, known as Newcits, as an alternative to investing in Cayman or British Virgin Islands hedge funds.
13/04/2010

GMAC sells European activities to Fortress Group

GMAC has agreed to sell its USD12bn European mortgage business to Fortress Investment Group, says the Financial Times. The disposal involves about 40 per cent of the assets of Residential Capital, its mortgage finance unit, including USD1bn in mortgages that were originated by GMAC and nearly USD11bn in securitisations.
13/04/2010

Default rate on European junk bonds falling

The default rate for European debt issuers in the speculative category has fallen to 12.8% as of the end of fourth quarter 2009, from 14.2% one quarter earlier, according to data from Standard & Poor’s. The agency estimates that the default rate will continue to fall, to a total of about 8.7% by the end of 2010. In total, 96 European issuers defaulted in 2009, representing total debt of EUR60.3bn. By country, Germany and the United Kingdom have the largest number of defaults (18 each), followed by France (16). In France, the default rate totalled 11.1% in 2009, compared with 2.7% in 2008. Contrary to the trend in Europe, the number of defaults increased significantly in fourth quarter 2009.
13/04/2010

Alken Asset Management registered in Spain

The Luxembourg-based management firm Alken Asset Management was Friday issued a license by the Spanish regulator, the CNMV, and will now be allowed to release the Alken European Opportunities fund, launched in January 2006 (EUR1.97bn in assets as of 26 February), in Spain. The product is managed by Nicolas Walewski.
13/04/2010

Nicolás Merigó becomes CEO of Marguerite Admisor

The former head of the Santander infrastructure fund, Nicolás Merigó, has been appointed as CEO of Marguerite Admisor, the manager of the largest public fund in Europe dedicated to energy, the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change & Infrastructure. The fund, which is in the format of a Luxembourg Sicav, may have an investment firepower of EUR6.5bn, of which EUR1.5bn would be in cash.Founded in 2008 under the French EU presidency, the fund is “supported” by Spanish, Italian, German, French and Polish public lending institutions, each of which have contributed EUR100m, Cotizalia reports. Additional contributions of EUR100m each were provided by the Portuguese management firm Caixa General de Depósitos, the Bank of Valleta (Malta) and the European Commission. The partner-promoters have also created a “financing initiative” to issue EUR5bn in debt. The fund is planning to close with EUR1.5bn in capital at the end of this year.
13/04/2010

Schroders scales up distribution in Germany

Schroder Investment Management has announced the recruitment of Alexander Heidenfelder, who was previously senior sales manager for supra-regional banks in Germany at Fidelity. He joined Schroders on 1 April, as director of distribution of open-ended funds in South Germany. He will report to Joachim Nareike, director of distribution.
13/04/2010

Threadneedle continues to add to sales force

The Frankfurt-based sales team under Werner Kolitsch, head of Germany and Austria at Threadneedle, has now been strengthened with the recruitment of a sales executive for key accounts, a position which will be occupied by Anita Frießner, who has more than 20 years’ experience int he financial sector, and who was most recently sales manager at Principal Global Investors in Munich. The sales force of Threadneedle in Germany now includes seven people, and may be further strengthened. According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, a further recruitment is coming soon, and the finalisation of two others may follow. In Austria, the office of the British asset management firm employs two people.
13/04/2010

BHF recruits team from Weberbank in Essen

The private wealth management team of Weberbank in essen, which includes six people led by André Weber, has joined BHF-Bank (EUR43bn in assets as of the end of 2009), and moved to the branch offices of BHF in Düsseldorf. By early July, the team will have new offices in Essen. The BHF network will then include 13 locations in Germany, including four int he Rhine-North Westphalia region. Weber becomes co-head of the Düsseldorf branch, alongside Hans-Joachim Höschel, and in this position will be responsible for the new location in Essen.
13/04/2010

Van Eck launches a Latin American small caps ETF

On Thursday evening, Van Eck Global announced the launch of the Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index ETF (acronym LATM on NYSE Arca), which claims a place as the fisrt publicly-traded ETF in the United States which provides subscribers a way to invest in Latin American small caps of the Market Vectors Latin America Small-Cap Index. The index currently includes 81 shares in companies with a market capitalization of at least USD150m, and a daily trading volume of at least USD1m over the past three months. Currently, the three largest sectors are materials (26%), discretionary consumer goods (23%) and industrials (14%). Management fees for the fund total 0.63%, net. The LATM is the 25th ETF of the Market Vectors range from Van Eck, which has about USD13.5bn in assets.

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